The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1869, Page 4

i: NEW YOR BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic flespatches must be addressed New Yore Berar. Rejected commutications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should ba properly ‘pealed, OLYMPIC THEATR Book. Matinee at 1s. BOOTH'S THEATRE Bie Van Winkie, WALLACK'S THEATRE. Brosiway ant 13th street. Victims. Tnx Prorie’s Lawy rn. THEATRE COMIQME, 514 Broadway.—A Live's Re WENGER -Goop FOR Nor NO. Matinee at 2. THE TAMMANY, Fourteen! Granis—Tur Oy Woman 3 reet.—Tam QUEEN OF LIVED in A SHOR. { Woon's MUSEUM AND TH roadway.—Afterno0n and evei RE, Thirtioth atrest and vg Performance, ’ PIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty: fourth street.—PLaY. Matinee at 2. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. pax ARRAM NA Poaue; or, 10KLOW WEDDING—HANDY ANDY, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—La Tour pe Neer e— MLLER AND Hie MeN—Mosz, RAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and d street.—THE Ska OF Jor. Matinee at 2. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 120 Broadway.—A GkanD Vantery ENTRRTAINMENT. Matinee at 239, CENTRAL PARK GARDE: ‘Wihsts.—Poruar GaRven av. bolween 58th and ant, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA H. Vooarten, NEGRO MINSTREL Como » 201 Bowery. 2g. c. Matinee GAN FRANCISCO MINST! 3, 535 Broadway..-ETHro- Plan MINSTBELSY, NEGRO Ai ko. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE Brooklyn. —Hooinr’s INGTURLS—OFF TO CUBA, & NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— JOIRNOK AND ABT. LADIES’ NEW YORK Broadway...Fruaces ON ‘New York, Saturday, September 4, 1869. M OF ANATOMY, 620 NDAN 2uansws. Europe. , Cable telegrams are dated September 3. Conflicting reports as to the actual condition of pecans healta produced uneasiness in Paris and ondon. Kugénie was at St. Cloud. Biarshals Pe- uela and Prim, of Spain, were at Vichy, and likely fight a duel, The cotton supply question engages uch attention in England. An Anglo-Italian line hf steamships between Naples and New York is Spoken of, Prince Gortschakotf is expected in Paris. Recruits for the Papal army continue to reach Rome. France will not, it is said, send a government repre- Gentative to the Council in Rome. Don Carlos 6 paid to have returned to Paris, Carlists continue to Jay down their arms in Spatu. The Stowe-Byron scandai story is again com- imonted on by the London journals. Turkey. The Sultan has arranged with the Khedive of Egypt so that the latter will not contract a Zuro- ean loan without his sanction. The Arctic Region. Advices from the German Arctic exploring expe- Aition, to nand in Berlin, report the command “all well’? In sight of the coast of Greenland on the 29th of July. Adverse winds were experiencea, and the Weather was unusually cold, even for the latitude. Hayti. Our Port au Prince letter is dated August 12. The wuaker City and Delphine are still bombarding natives, while the rebels have alsoa land force partly investing it. There 1s an American Consulate ‘tn the town, over which the American fag is fying, but no American man-of-war is near the port, Miscellancous. The President held a public reception at the Union Bite! in Saratoga last evening. Attorney General Hoar transmitted his opinion relative to the test oath in Virginia to General Canby Yesterday. ‘The oath will not be required for mem- bers of the Legislature, as the Legislature to be next convened is simply provisional and can make no Jaws, and when the constitution has been accepted by the State the test oath 1s of course abolished by its provisions. 1t is ascertained that General Cauby Will soon declare the result of the election and con- ene the Legislature, when the fifteenth amendment ‘ill be ratified and officers chosen. There is consid- erable rejoicing in Richmond over the decision. Dr, Speed, who has been Postmaster of Louisville, y-, for eight years, having been appointed by Mr. Ancoln and re-appointed by President Grant, has on removed, and Colonel Jesse Bayles has been pointed to succeed him, the President having, as it wero, decided on an eight year limitation to oMce- holding. Kentucky affairs, it is said, were a subject ‘of discussion at the late Cabinet meeting. George Wilkes, it ls now stated, is the man for the ‘Chinese mission. ; The propeller Boscobel was burned below St. biatr, Mich., on the lakes, yesterday. She was run shore and proves a total loss, One man was @rowned and another is missing. General Butler has written an article on the Stowe- $yron controversy, which will shortly appear. | At the opening of a new public school in Bergen Wity yeaterday, Rev. Mr. Lowrie in his dedicatory ‘ Adreas, said the school was for Protestants, and ‘was an institution where the Bible could be read ‘@very morning, and the progress of infidelity could Pe arrested, ‘The blockade runner Lillian, now at New Oricans Writh steam up and ready for sea, is suspected or Peing a Cuban finbuster. Six Spanish detectives @re watching her. She is ostensibly bound for Uedar Keys, Fia, David La Force, an old citizen of Bayonne, N. J., Gied on Tuesday vight of hyarophobia. He was lightly bitten as long ago as the 1uth of July, and the wound bad healed. \ The City. The preparations for the Humboldt memorial are fast reaching completion. Professor Doremus is to Meliver the address in English. The German vessels An the harbor will fy all their bunting, and many Farge seminaries, singing societies and turnvercins will join in the procession, The piace in the Park forthe statue has not yet been definitely decided Upon. Lady Thorn and Mountain Boy trotted at the Prospect Fair grounds yesterday fora piece of plate vaiued at $2,000. Lady Thorn won in three straight hoats—2:23%%, 2:21, 2:21)4. John Harrison and the little girl Adelia Adama, ‘Who were shot by Captain Foss of the ship Pacific, a south street, @ week or LWo ago, are both now ut of danger, and Foss as been released on $6,000 for his appearance. John Kiley, a young man employed as clerk by Alfred Colvill, No. 50 Wall street, was arrested pesterday, charged with stealing $10,000 in five- Swenty bonds belonging to his employer. He carrie’ them apparently tu an envelope to tire Safe Deposit Company's vaults for safekeeping on the 1st inst.; Nit the envelope was returned the next morning, ‘ sled aud unbroken, but the ponds were gone, ley was committed. The aurora borealis was partly visible Prvoning. Jast The stock market yesterday was Irregular, but | Generally weak and @ ‘The trial of Bogart, the ceiaalting paymaster’s Clerk, Was concluded at the Navy Yard yesterday, fre the result was forwarded to the Navy Depart- ent, ‘dhe coroner's jury investigating the case of the 1, Goid rode Tp K HERALD alleged burgiar, Washington, who died while en- gaged in ‘robbing some Furman atreet stores, ta Brooklyn, returned @ verdict yesterday of deyth from iuyories, Prominent Arrivals tn tho City. Senator 8, 0. Pomeroy, of Kansas, and Dr. Jewett, of New Haven, are at tue Astor House, A. B Cornell, of Ithaca, sat the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Cantwell, of St. Louis; Colonel W. W. Miller, of Florida; Colonel L., Dickinson, of Boston, and C. Goddard, of the United Statea Army, are at the Metropottan Hotel. Count d’ Aerschot, of Washington, and A. L. Boulton, of Venezuela, are at the Brevoort House. Mr. Rangabe, Chargé de Affaires for Greece, 18 at the Aibermarie Hotel. Sir Henry Holland, Bart., arrived from England yesterday morning on the steamer Khein, and is the guest of Thurlow Weed, Prominent Departures. Colonel J. Davenport and Assistant Secretary of State J. . Bancroft Davis, for Boston; Colonel E. Fuller, for Albany; Judge Lafiin, for London, Eng- Jand, and W, W. Swayne, of Brooklya, for London and Paris, The Caban Republic. The independence of Cuba has been officially acknowledged by one nation. Peru has led the way for the other republics of South and North America. We published yesterday the text of the decree promulgated by President Balta declaring that ‘The independence of the island of Cuba from Spanish dominion, and also the republican form of government therein established ara hereby recognized.” Peru, itis known, is one of the most important and flour- ishing republics of South America. It has a larger population than any other, except New Granada, and its action will soon be followed, no doubt, by the other republics of that conti- nent. Nor will Mexico be slow in following theexample. Indeed, we may expect to hear shortly that the independence of Cuba is re- cognized by all the nations of America, South and North, except Brazil and the United States. Brazil, of course, can have no sym- pathy with the Cubans or any other people struggling for liberty and to establish a repub- lican form of government. As @ monarchy she is naturally the friend of Spain and royalty everywhere. Her government is an anomaly and a pernicious exotic on American soil. But what of our own government? What will the United States do with regard to Cuba ? Will it follow the example of Poru and recog- nize the independence of the Cubans? The encouragement or support thus given by Peru or that will be given by the other smaller re- publics of America to the Cubans will have a good effect; but after all their success and the fate of their rich and beautiful country may depend upon the action or inaction of the United States. It is true the Cubans may pro- long the struggle, or even conquer their inde- pendence ultimately, without the recognition or interposition of the American government; but what would Cuba be worth afterwards ? What horrors of war and what a terrible sacri- fice of life would bo the consequence of such 4 cold-blooded policy ? The question arises here, then, what will our government do? We hear from Washing- ton, we hear from different points of the coun- try where the President and his Cabinet are perambulating, and we hear indirectly from the mouths of General Grant and Secretary Fisb, that the administration cordially sympa- thizes with the Cubans, and that It is taking measures to secure their independence. Nor can we doubt thatit is so. General Grant, we feel assured, is sincere and earnest in his de- sire to see Ouba free, and the Secretary of State has expressed the same desire too plainly to doubt his sincerity. Congress has already spoken in the most emphatic manner. The unariimous vote of the House of Representa- tives expressing sympathy with the Cubans was full of meaning and indicates further action on the part of Congress when it reassembles. There is but one sentiment on this subject throughout the country. The people of all sections and classes are for the Cubans, and wish the government to take measures for their independence. Why, then, this delay? If it be the policy and determina- tion of the government and people of the United States that Cuba shall be free, why does the administration hesitate and temporize so long? It seems to us that the time has come when the Cubans should be recognized as belligerents at least, and thus give them the same status and privileges as the Spaniards in the purchase of materials of war. The gov- ernment did well in placing an embargo on the gunboats being constructed here for the Span- iards, and it is to be hoped that these war vessels will not be allowed to leave the United States; but it should not stop at this point. Arms and munitions of war are frequently shipped here for the Spaniards in Cuba, while the Cubans are denied this privilege. Let the belligerents be put on the same footing. This will neither seriously affect our peaceful rela- tions or negotiations with Spain nor the Ala- bama claims, and might stir up the Spanish government to a more prompt settlement of the Cuban question. Judging from the news which we have re- ceived lately from Spain, it is evident the gov- ernment at Madrid, as well as the Spanish press and people, begia to lower their haughty tone about subjugating the insurrection and holding on to the island of Cuba at all hazards, The latest telegraphic despatch from Madrid says:—‘‘The journals here are despondent about Cuba, and demand fuller official informa- tion of the state of affairs on the island.” Nor can Spain fail to be impressed by the views of the leading journals of Europe, which show that the only solution of the Cuban difficulty is to turn the island over to the United Sfates or cede itsindependence. In every point of view, then, we think the time has come when our government should speak in unmistakable language to the Spanish Regency as to its policy concerning Cuba and the inevita- ble destiny of that island. Delay may only create complications, perpetuate the hor- rors of @ most atrocious system of war, and make the island, like St. Domingo, which also was once the richest gem of the Antilles, com- paratively valueless to us or to the world. This is the paramount question of the day, and we hope the administration will act on it ‘.—The election of § democra ture in California ree TS 4d . oo ge eee ! Lacks tie fifteenth amendment on the head so far ag that State is concerned, Hostility to African and Mongolian suffrage and equality in California is too mach for even Genoral Grant's admiaistration, Democratic Movemonte fer tho State Logts- lature. The approaching political campaign in this city and State is, from all appéarances, but the prelude to the Presidential campaign of 1872, The issues to be decided in the full owe all their importance to the effect they are deaigned to have or may have in the futuro. Upon the action of the people on the great political questions soon to be submitted will depend the fate for another four years from 1872 of the two great parties of the country. In the struggle for supremacy it is conceded that the brunt of the fight will fall upon the democracy of the Empire State, and upon the reault of the first encounter the democracy of the whole country will stand or fall. Prepara- tions for the preliminary contest in this State are very quietly but energetically carried on. There is no mistaking the ground upon which the adverse parties in this State will first come into conflict. Little has been said hitherto upon this subject, but it is as clear as the sun at noonday that the democratic loaders will present to the party a platform averse to negro suffrage and in opposition to the ratification of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution. Here is the nucleus of a big-fight, and the Red Indians, with paint and feathers, whoop and tomahawk, are out on the warpath rallying their forces with a deter- mination to carry this State, and then, with tho prestige of victory, to summon the democratic tribes from all quarters to the great decisive battle of 1872. Upon the two great national questions— negro suffrage and the ratification of the fifteeenth amendmont—the Tammany leaders have taken their stand. They are opposed to both measures, and on that opposition they appeal to the support of the democratic masses of this city and State. They have con- sidered the first question in all its bearings, and they are satisfied that they can command an overwhelming majority of the voters of the city against it. So far as the fifteenth amend- ment is concerned, they contend that the pre- vious Legislature failed to give their adoption of it an official or legal ratification, and that therefore it is still an undecided question and must wait the action of the next Legislature. The hope of defeating this measure, should the action of the previous legislation on it be treated as not binding, is a great incentive to the Tammany leaders to secure a democratic Legislature, and to this end all their efforts will be directed in the fall campaign. Here, then, is the great issue that looms up between the republican and democratic parties in this State, and which, though contended for to a great extent on local ground, becomes, as regards the result, a vital national question. Should the Tammany Regency succeed it will be from that time forth not only the controlling power in this State, but must, as a natural consequence and political necessity, take the lead in shap- ing and directing the policy of the entire democ- racy of the country. This isthe great end and object ofthe Regency. The Presidential ball willbe at their feet and they will kick it the statement; but it is perfectly possible and Probable that the wife wasa victim of delu- siod.” This accords with the hypothesis which wo have already advanced. Tho Pall Mall Gaeettc thinks that ‘whatever may be the rea- sons that determined Mr. Wentworth and his sister to postpone the publication of Lady Byron's papers, Mrs. Stowe cannot be such a serious offender if the grandchildren seriously thought of publishing them,” It adds that the solicitors of Lady Byron ‘‘make no charge of inaccuracy, but of incompleteness. The infer- ence is that Mrs. Stowe's statement is correct, but that more remains tobetold.” The Morn- ing Post is of opinion that as Mrs. Stowe was not one of the trustees to whom Lady Byron's will committed her papers, under certain con- ditions, “‘her story is entirely gratuitous and unauthorized; she has committed a breach of confidence reposed in her, and the offence, by her own showing, does not admit of exten- uation.” The Morning Post expresses the almost universal sentiment of both the English and the American press in stigmatizing Mrs. Stowe's article as a violation of confidence and an outrage on the dead, and in saying that Mrs, Stowe ought to know that the public con- science cannot be so offended with impunity. Our Relations with China. The relations of all civilized nations with China, as well as our own, are involved in the present controversy about the rumored rejec- tion of the American treaty by the Chinese government, The evidence is all against the rumors, and the question might as well be considered settled. What is the evidence? Mr. Burlingame insists that no decision has been come to at Pekin, Mr. Browne denies that he made the statement attributed to him, although he cannot recall his foolish letter to the English merchants resident in Ohina, for it is on record as a proof of his incompetency to represent this government there, and cannot very well be glossed over asa specimen of very poor diplomacy. The latest presumptive evidence of the falsity of the rumor comes from the London Times of Thursday, which says that “recent information of undoubted authenticity contradicts the late rumors that the Amerloan treaty with China had been ro- jected,” and that Prince Kung in no w y repu- diates the treaty. Now, we know that the Regent of China, Prince Kung, the Bismarck, Metternich, Von Buest of that Flowery King- dom, is aman of advanced progressiveness and great intelligence, and one not likely to retard any measure calculated to draw China forth from its isolation of thousands of years, restrict its progress or throw it back into the darkness of its own circumscribed civilization. We know, moreover, that it was not intended to ratify the treaty until Mr. Burlingame’s re- turnto China, after his mission to the outside world was fulfilled—a very wise and judicious provision on the part of the Chinese statesman, and one, as we understand, fully agreed to by Mr. Burlingame himself. The rumors, therefore, got up to establish that the treaty is a jiasco, and Burlingamo, in a measure, a failure must have had “‘whithersoever they list’—towards the White House of course, They are prepared for that. The manner of conducting the Democratic Na- tional Convention held in the new Wigwam on the Fourth of July, 1868, was a piece of the shrewdest political strat- egy ever enacted, The whole thing was got up by the Tammany leaders for effect, to exhibit the weakness of all aspiring com- petitors for the Presidency outside of the State of New York, and to place in contrast there- with the magnanimity of the New. Yorkers themselves, whose delegation, after voting for every candidate proposed, even suggesting Salmon P. Chase—a sensation dodge—per- mitted Horatio Seymour to be ‘‘sprung” upon them, and then yielded with a protesting shrug which intimated that it was none of their doing But the whole doing was a Tammany ruse, which will soon, it is expected, bear its fruit. In the next Democratic National Convention Tammany will come boldly forth with its nominee, and he will be, as already announced by a Tammany sachem in the historic Wig- wam on the Fourth of July last, John T. Hoffman. In 1872 the fight will be between Grant and Hoffman ; this is certain and inevita- ble; and in the meantime the opéra bouffe journals may continue to play tenpins with their Presidential candidates, or so long as the amusement is entertaining or profitable, The result of the coming campaign and of the issues involved is, therefore, of vital im- portance to the two great parties in the State, and this fact accounts for the strenuous efforts that each is putting forth to secure a majority in the next Legislature; for on the composition of that body will depend ina great measure the fate of higher and more vital ulterior issues. The Byron Scandal in England. The solicitors of Lady Byron have hastened, in the name of her family, to disclaim all countenance of Mrs. Stowe’s pretended revela- tion of the causes of Lord Byron's separation from his wife. In the communication which they have sent to the London journals they distinctly declare that the article of Mra. Stowe in the Adantic Monthly is not a com- plete or authentic statement and does not involve any direct evidence. They say that nothing is communicated but recollections of ® conversation held thirteen years ago and impressions derived from manuscript read under great excitement, They very reasona- bly protest against Mrs. Stowe’s account as a gross breach of trust and confidence, a8 incon- sistent with her own recommendations to Lady Byron, and as a violation of the express terms of her will. Perhaps, under the cir- cumstances, no more explicit contradiction of the slander could be made by the solicitors of Lady Byron. But, so far ag it goes, it should suffice to counteract the quasi-endorsement of Mrs. Stowe’s story by the London Daily News. No doubt the whole subject will be thoroughly sifted and conclusively settled in due time by writers for the leading English periodicals. Meanwhile we commend to their special atten- tion the masterly refutation by Count Johannes, in Thursday's Heracp, of Bira, Stowe's libel on’ the dead. fee * age ere rae eh “ 1 The London Times, in its editorial of yester- day on Mra. Stowe's article, alludes to the manifest desire of Lady Byron's solicitors to discredit the story, but adds that they do not some motive not yet quite apparent on the sur- face. Where shall we look for the motive? It has been hinted that extensive arrangements were on the tapis to introduce sundry Ameri- can inventions in agricultural implements and other machinery into China. Supposing that Mr. Browne was acting as agent for or was otherwise interested in this business, might it not be reasonable that he should urge the mat- ter forward during his own term of office? But Prince Kung is a protectionist, as are all his countrymen, and his dilatoriness in sanc- tioning the introduction of these foreign inno- vations in such a hurry may possibly have be- gotten some disappointment on the part of ex- Minister Browne—assuming, of course, that his connection with the adoption of these Ameri- can inventions really existed, and it is only an assumption. However that may be, we see in the fact that protection is in favor with the Chinese, and that the Regent isin part the representa- tive of the idea, an excellent reason why the place of Minister to China, from which Ross Browne has been removed, and which has re- cently been refused by Mr. Howard, should be filled by Greeley. There, in somo magnificent pagoda at Pekin, under the shadow of Prince Kung’s rule, he would have a fair fleld and ample opportunity for the exercise of his pecu- Har notions on the subject of protective tariffs. We urge this upon the administration as an additional reason why Greeley should be de- spatched at once as our Minister to the Chinese government. There is nothing like having the right man in the right place; and if. Greeley does not prove to be the right man in the right place, Grant can pick the flint and try it again. It took several trials to capture Richmond. Tur Post Orrick BaRRioapDE.—Is it not rather odd that the city authorities should be moving to secure the freedom of the footpath in front of ‘the new Post Office? What accounts for this sudden interest in the state of the streets? For years there has not been a clear sidewalk in the whole city. Builders innumerable in putting up their houses seize on the street as well as the side- walk in the hungriest way, and never was there any relief or a word of comfort to the public from the city authorities. Down town there are no sidewalks in many places, for bridges are built from the merchant's door to the tail of his cart in the street, that his goods may be rolled over. Nothing is heard from the city authorities on that subject. But now here is the government preparing to put up 8 public edifice and to excavate vaults, and, forsooth, there is « chatter against closing the footpath, Are we not suddenly delicate? Tur NicogR Question 1x New YorK.— The nigger question on the fifteenth amend- ment of the federal constitution and on the negro suffrage proposition of our proposed new State constitution is, it appears, to be the fight in our coming November election fur the State Legislature, We shall know more dis- tinctly, however, the bearings of this question after the action thereon of the republicans and democrats in their respective State conven- Hong of Suis mfonih, Moantime, from all the signs of the day, including the résults of the Galifornia clection, we think it probable that the “almighty nigger” will be the leading issue in all the approaching State elections where there is a chance to hoad off General Grant on Pee e UES NT Oath fa Virginia. Etthor’ the abstract of Attorney General Hoar’s oplaion On the test oath in Virginia, as sent from Wastington, is a muddle, or the opinion itself is not marked by any very extra- ordinary Incidity, The Attorney General says that ‘‘the Legislature must, as a prerequisite, Submit the constitution and their action thereon to Congress for approval. In this the test oath will not be required.” We understaid well enough that the new State constitution is to be submitted to Congress, but what “action thereon” is required passes our comprehension. We are not informed that if Congress approves of the constitution and Virginia is restored to her place in the Union then the test oath may or may not be required according to the re- quirements of the State constitution, All this was quite superfluous information, We knew it all before, just as we know that neither General Canby nor Congress can compel a member of the New York Legislature to take the test oath, This wonderful abstract winds up by saying that the Legislature, as a. pro- visional body, cannot pass laws without taking the test oath. Now, as the law-making power must be exercised before the constitution can be submitted to Congress, this opiaion, if the abstract be correct, merely decides, in a round- about way, that it Is left entirely to the diacre- tion of General Canby whether or not to insiat upon the test oath being applied to the Legis- lature. We trust that the full text of the opin- ion will soon be made public. Tho Tweed Movement—Tho Game in the Bands of Belmont. The devotees of Mr. Tweed permit their zeal to outrun thelr discretion. The National Democratic Executive Committee is appointed by the national party Convention once in four years, and the committee consists of one mem- ber from each State. The committee elects its own chairman, Under this process Mr. Bel- mont is now the chairman, and in this capacity he may at any time in his discretion call the committee together. For instance, if he should determine to resign his position as chairman, he will doubtless call a meeting of the com- mittee, in view of the election of some other momber to the chair. If he should further resolve to resign his position as a member, then there would be some chance for Mr. Tweed in filling the vacancy for New York. But the whole game is in Belmont’s hands, and in simply declining to do anything in the matter the game of the Tweed men is effectu- ally blocked. We presume in this view of the question that Mr. Belmont will do nothing to accommo- date Mr. Tweed. If it be true, as represented by some of the Western democratic organs, that Belmont is a Pendleton man for 1872, he will certainly hold fast to his position, because the Tweed movement is in the interest of Hoff- manasthe Tammany candidate, Atall events, if Mr. Belmont has made up his mind to pay no attention to the clamor of the Tweed clubs of this city, they cannot reach him until the question of the election of a new national committee shall come up in the Presidential party Convention of 1872, for meantime the matter rests with the committee, and the com- mittee is subject to the call of its chairman. A poor man in this position might be bought off; but Tammany will hardly dare to make such a proposition to August Belmont, Prince Napoleon’s Position, Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, cousin to the Emperor Napoleon, and, like him, a ‘‘nephew of his uncle,” Napoleon the First, continues his parliamentary agitation against the policy of the Paris Cabinet as well as the tendency of the chief measures proposed by the French Ministers in a very decided manner. The Prince is not satisfied with the present head of the dynasty, and although he himself has been nominated the second member of the regency in behalf of the Prince Imperial, should his Majesty die before his son attains his majority, it Is quite evident that he wishes to push for- ward considerably in the path of radical pro- gress prior to that event if possible. His con- duct in this direction has been so marked of late that he is now olassed as an ‘‘irrecon- cilable” in politics, the Minister of the Interior going so far, indeed, in his very presence, as to characterize his Senatorial course as ‘‘scan- dalous.” It is difficult to understand why this should be, The empire as at present con- stituted ought to be wide enough, certaiuly, for one family. It appears, however, as if it were otherwise, Prince Napoleon, who bears aremarkable and most striking personal re- semblance to Napoleon the Great, may have inherited with it that illimitability of ‘‘iden’” which raised up new thrones and induced many conquests previous to Waterloo. Toned down to practical radicalism, he may perhaps call this French reform to be put in prac- tice by a plebiscite instead of at the point of the bayonet. It has been said that bis advice of the adoption of such an experiment contri- buted largely to the Italo-Austrian war, the actual result of which, although it banished the Austrians from Lombardy and created a united Italy, brought Savoy and Nice under the sceptre of Bonaparte, His Imperial Highness is consequently a successful expoerimentist, and it may be that Span offers just now an inviting field for the exercise of his genius, He is very shrewd and very comprehensive. He opposed the Mexican expedition; he may go for Spain—perhaps go to Spain in the event of a suitable king not being found soon. He is radical enough for Spanish revolution. He goes for the peoples, and, of course, for Cuban independence. Tae Gotp GamBiers in Wall street are en- gaged in a desperate contest. The ‘‘bulls” are said to have bought more gold than is in all the city banks. They have put the price to 136} and threaten to put it higher. They en- deavor to sustain their efforts by all sorts of absurd stories. One of the most absurd of these was circulated yesterday to the effect that the administration, in order to curry favor with the West, would stop the salea of gold and keep up its price in order that the farmers might get profitable prices fer their bread- stuffs in the exporting season. The “boars” dispute the advance sep by Step, Gnd henco the desperate character of the contest, Were there no epeoulating for a fall in gold there mycket, The “hears,” by selling gold whieh ro ae get through igh withthe \ A. eee ‘Tho Natiodal Temperance Convention. The Natlonal Temperance Convéntion at Chicago has proclaimed its platform, declaring that its members adhere to the Declaration of Independence and the constitution; that the traffic in intoxicating drinks is demoralizing and dishonorable to Christian civilization, and cannot be regulated or restrained by any system of license whatever; that inasmuch as our existing political parties will do nothing for the suppression of rum drinking, an inde- pendent ‘‘anti-dram shop” party is necessary; that the temperance people accordingly wilt operate as an ‘‘anti-dram. shop party,” going at the same time against all repudiation of the public debt, Subsequently it was agreed to call this new organization the “national tem- perance party,” and it is to have a national executive committee. Some of the speakers of the Convention looked upon the project as a Trojan horse against the republicad patty, One member promised a hundred ry dozen for democratic temperance men; but discovery that Brick Pomeroy is a tempefance man softened down somewhat these appre- hensions of democratic strategy. We fear, however, that if even Brick Pomeroy ts required to mix temperance and opposition te repudiation he will stick to tho democratic ticket, fand whistle this new temperance party down the wind. In short, as a third party it may be pronounced from the start a fiasco, THe Mormon TrousLes.—The Smitha, the sons of the original Joseph, the founder of Mormonism, have bearded the lion Brigham Young in his den and are making terrible war upon his system of polygamy. And by the Pacific Railroad the Gentiles are crowding around, and for him and his extraordinary deapotism the handwriting will soon be visible on the wall. The best thing for him is to pro- claim a “revelation” which will effect an ac- ceptable revolution in the religion of the Latter Day Saints. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. East Twenty-fourth street, from ‘fourth avenne to Madison avenue, having a smooth wood pavemen& is now used moatly as a racing track by the boys of the Bull’s Head stables, A new boat, the Winona, has beon put on the Fulton ferry. There is notafeature about it that differs from the boats built fifteen years ago. An old citizen on a Hoboken ferryboat, reading the account of the erection of the colossal bronze statue to Commodore Vanderbilt, remarked that this ‘was the “age of brags.” Says another—“It takes @ little more than brass to be successful nowadays, unless you are intimate with the Stock Board aad can manage to throw some steal-ings in.’ A policeman on Broadway actually had the temer- ity to notify a squad of walking placardists to “move along—get out of Broadway.” They obeyed, until they got into the beat of the next poliooman, whem they resumed their march. Query.—Have these walking placard nuisances rights which one potive- man is bound to respect and not another? Chophouse rumor—That the intrignes of the British to defeat tue Burlingame treaty ts simply a matter of chop-sticks and chop-steaks. But the British in New York are generally chopfatlen at Burly’s late despatches condrming tne success of his negotiations. Victor Hugo's “Man Who Laughs” has a rival i the “Man Who Soils the Floor of His Cabin with Tobacco Juice,” and a lady with a liver-colored lap dog, whose dress—the lady's—was badly soiled lately by making a draft upon the floor of the ladies’ cabta in a Fulton street ferryboat, is atter the tobacco juice man with a sharp parasol. Judge James R. Whiting says when ho loft the office of Street Inspector the streets were as cloan as a Yankee housewife’s kitchen floor. How are they to-day? If tney were clean then they are McLean now, The late card of one of the Oxford crew gives rise to chophouse talk. One liberal-minded Englishmam Yesterday deprecated the idea of making the late race a subject of international irritation, remarking, with peculiar Cockney emphasis, “The man who'd do so, I say, 18 a houtrageous wilian.” ‘The Church street improvement gets along woa- derfally. It is a great public conventence certainly, It took @ University place car only an hour an@ twenty minutes to make the journey from Barclay to Fourteenth street a day or two ago. A general upheaval for an underground railroad would not create more pressure of vehicles and delay for pedestrians than the present system of widening some streets and at the same time repav- ing others that run paralleh There is @ lack of judgment somewhere. Perhaps it may be what the Kast Indians call a good lac—10,000 rupees a day. vockney quotations in the city, from an old American author—“The litte willan.” “You lie, you witlan.’? THE HUMBOLDT MEMORIAL, Arrangements for tbe Celebration of the Fes tival. The committee of arrangements for the celebra- tion of the centenary of the birth of Alexander vom Humboldt, on the 14th inst,, met again yosterday afternoon at Liederkranz Hall, No. 35 East Fourth street, Mr. Frederick Kuehne presiding. Mr. Kiam- roth, the secretarv, read a letter from Mr, Jobanneg Roesing, the North German Consul General in this city, In which he states that he would request the German vessels in port on the day of the celebration to hoist their fags. A letter was also read from Mr, Theodore Heidenfeld, that the teachers and of the upper Classes of his German-American. vate school would participate in the procession. was Fags bad add the following tut the list of those invited:—The Bellevue Medical College; the Genera: Theological 7 the St. Francis Xavier Seminary and the ‘Tneological Seminary. Mr. INWAY reported that Professor Doremus bon consented to deliver the address in Enguah in the Park. Mr. AUPRRMANN reported that no place had as definitely been assigned for the monument ite Park, the one proposed on Fifth ave! street seeming to be too near the é} Park. Much comment was caused and by tip because the approaching day of the ay mass it La Cae Mara) the era ae of the pedestal oi monument menoed fort ted that h yc eneral BURGER repor! at he, ini Aivide the procession fnto three ait the nest tS consist of the ping! Pere ee 3 ah Fourth street and este bi A Ce institutions of learning, political ‘organ! trades associations, bling 1p. Greasy font and the third of the tu! aver for ot gymouastica), assembling in Poni ag al cession will form at ten o'clock Gmence at ti P, = Scoinway will the of tne German “4 for ted, at eleven o'clock A, the ba being sold | in the Park will 001 Messrs. Holdenfeld an: scription ltsts and tickets are committee. It‘was resolved i programme of the ceilel ion be published three days previous to the ceremonies, ‘he meeting then adjourned to Tuesday pext, THE RECENT EXPLOSON ON THE VIRGINIA COAST, Farther particulars of the sad acctdent on beara the wrecked ship Ann Rilza, on the beach at Smiths Island, near Cape Charles, have been received trom, Fortress Monroe. ‘Tho engineer, Mr. Josep’, a, Baker, was instantly xilled by the explosiop, genry Malicot, William McCoy, William De: Wright, William Fitchett and Rie geet, joneph colored men employed by the wrec! org wore al ttt) injured, and were conveyed to ‘worrolk for medical jose namos are not treatment. Two other men, gn, qivea, were killed. They fre said to have been b's colored men and {9 Nave nT a osided on Cobb's talan contradict it. The Z'imes says, moreover, ‘it ia impossible that Mrs, Stowe undgratood engo the fifteenth amendment, ia apport of which ho is fully gagmittod, : ‘ ey do not possess, make an cf de- would bz ho strength on tho ‘“bull” side of the | mand for i, Meantime the Generel pusiness young Six named 4 ta Naaity of the sb, i Cat okie eee naidiag having his overc¢ on at the time, It ts f some of the Oler workmen may bave been DlOwR fverboard a4 drowned, /